The author noted that Buck Henry recalled that in 1963 in Greenwich Village, it was possible to see all of the following comedians in the same night, all performing within a few blocks of each other: Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and Woody Allen.

This is a tremendous piece of work, by the way. I had no idea of the crazy dimensions of Pryor's life, much of which couldn't have happened in any other era.